her viewpoints on use with guns and whether the gun buy backs will work. do you have friends, thank you for bringing that up. >> i know people with guns. i wouldn't. i don't want to get involved with that. i just leave them alone with their guns. i don't get involved >> i say that to say, the idea if someone is carrying a gun, we might consider them dangerous. if they got that one, they can get another one. >> we have to consider, this is going to be a long process.

this is not a one stop drop, if am i rackateering. i am going to take a couple of guns i don't use and use others. the major thing we have to look at is prevention. we have so many different levels of things we have to use. we can't just say, okay. drop your gun off, you're cool. that's not a shot at the program. we need that problem. but we need these other programs and dealing with the parents and families. we just first grader at cleveland. i worked at cleveland. he probably found the gun. stuffed it in his back and went to school.

>> nobody knew >> all my friend that is have guns. it's because it's for protection. because they don't want to be caught without a gun. if you're without a gun, there's more of a chance you're going to get hurt yourself. >> i guess the question is how do we make people feel safe in our communities? the issue is how do we need to get people to feel like they don't need a gun. >> you got video games that allow them to placate the attitudes. we have movies that make millions of dollars of that attitude created from our community. yes, we must do this, we must look at all the components.

as reductions took place. man if i couldn't get that summer job. i knew i was going to be robbing folks. that was, not to date myself. that was a couple years back. >> hey, hey. come on. anyways. but, you know, it is, things have gotten reductions and other cuts. it all impacts us.

not getting the gun off the street. it's a longer term investment. are we prepared. >> i think what we are going to do now is engage our audience. we are going to ask you if you have questions of any of our panelists, staying focussed on making changes to deal with guns and violence. what's working? what's not? >> hello. last summer. everything was okay in treasure island. we are lost in the island. what is happening through the

city of intervention out their on the island. they do have traditional boys club. ymca. i am not hearing anything. what am i hearing today >> john torres. i want to talk to you later. >> i am piggybacks. d.c. y f has funded these and may are meeting with of the service providers. they do have a community interveners. >> where do we find out.

the d.c. yf. >> it's an interesting thing we're dealing with here. our young people. of course, we are living in a very, very, tense time globally, with our young people really needing to be prepared and in their preparation needing to make a contribution in the united states and abroad. the question as well as the concerns that i have, have to do. i think the gentlemen in the orange and the other young lady and also this is for the

mayor's aid. we are talking about mentor programs. i have been listening to this for the last 7 hours. i attend a lot of other events. the idleness of not having enough to do. are the basics keeping them in step. so, i'd like to know what other leadership programs are going to be available to these young kids. we heard about the sport things. what about the things coming out of silicon valley, working

with yahoo or google that gives mentor ships. i haven't heard anything with the media and i have heard of the arts doing something with the idleness. >> what partnerships with the private sector. >> at the bay view safe haven, we have a project with pixar. that's going on through this summer as well. we also have another project

with another participant in my program, will be taking a flight to the colorado film festival where he one a prize for a film he did about his brother in hunter's point. i will be running a right's of passage at joe lee. so our number, 4 one 5. 824-4098. i can give you a whole slew of activities. >> i just wanted to say, we had been in a conversation with maya and we are planning with a

pilot program to develop an 8-week program where mondays would be career explorations. they are going to visit art musicians and bank of america and the career paths they have chosen and then there are discussions about attitude and hygiene. how do you present yourself so people want to engage with you. we are trying to work with the mayor's office and d.c. yn. >> there are a couple of youth empowerments.

and the whole goal of that fund, which john may know about the details is to empower the people to be the victors of their destiny. it's a way to let youth identify their dreams and be the leaders in terms of allocations. they dole out grants. so the youth empowerment fund is an exciting way in come san francisco is engaging its young people. we have one of the few youth commissions. they work on the variety of youth issues. the ymc has launched big brothers and big sisters.

nick cannon has an entire campaign of stop hating. kind of embedded in citiess and communities around california. in terms of digital media, i think that's a very important part. we have a lot of digital lead companies. you have new america media. youth outlook. you've not bay cat and bay vac. each of those are engaged with probationers. so i think that people recognize the value of digital media. we have to connect and explore those job opportunities

directing our young people. we are doing that. we are around in digital media work. >> i meant to say bay cat. it's actually a digital media company. we work with the crn and currently trying to pull things together with bay cat. it's a good place in terms of getting our youth in that. >> i would like to engage the private sector to push the limits on the use of technology to keep in touch with our kids. i would love to put a cell phone in the hands of everybody

in the probation. and that we would have the kids on hand. they don't make a move without letting everybody know what they are doing. what they are. what they are thinking what's going to happen next. a lot of kids get involved for one beef. we should look for our partners in the telecommunications. disposable phones. so, i'd like to explore to that >> will you commit to that?

>> sure. i already have a conversation 2 years ago with someone, i won't mention the name of the carior. it was almost like i was talking from mars. i will continue to pursue this. >> next question. >>[inaudible]. >> they are talking to media. all of these things are connected to the finance of our society. so we need to really get into the mentor and leadership dynamics with a bank. somebody needs to find out really what's working in our society. and i think this is where these kids are really left out.

they feel they are not apart of the inner workings of our society and how it really connected our beliefs and how important they are not scheme of things. it's not just about basketball and football. they need to get with the finances of what goes on here in this society. >> thank you. next question >> yes. i had a quick comment. i wanted to follow up on communities that are outside of the regular realm of crn. we need and crn over there. i wanted to say within the last couple of youths.

we have all kinds of youth cultures and we have a huge latino population. most of those kids are young. we have been having our convenes meetings. all of us agree. none of us have the structure. we need to have someone get involved with job opportunity. we need that in the t l. >> that's my comment. >> i don't know. people could respond to that. >> i have actually talked about kyle peterson to have a

discussion. i agree. the need is out there. one of the things, with the crn structure. there has to be and agency that are going to have to step in. that was one the barriors. it wasn't mentioned before. with all of the other different crn's. there is an existing relationship that has transsended generations. i think the tl hasn't been a specific culture or ethnicity. i don't think the community ties are as long.

but the conversation had sparked up and by all means, i am on board to see what can be a development. additionally, that's what i wanted to say. >> john. can you commit to that? this is a very good of example of where we can stop the infection. right? we know it's there. so let's stop it before it becomes a disease. can you commit, you have worked with people. this is something that has been raised. >> i am committed to continuing the conversations >> you had another question. >> we would love to hear commitment from other folks. just to put it out there. we are talks about immigrants. a lot of people we are working

with are undocumented. people do not trust the police. especially our young folks. we had a person beat up by the police. we are hoping in the future. the police department can think of how the immigration rates. it's not proimmigrant. especially undocumented youth are afraid for their safety and aren't coming forward. >> i would like to address some of the issues on our undocumented youth in san francisco. it's important that we protect all people regardless of their immigration status. the police and rates that have happend and been on going.

the mayor has been in discussions minimizing that in san francisco. we are not notified. the police department has no information about the raids. they are not working with local police. we are trying to work with the aftermath to provide services to families who are impacted by the raids. we provide service for the undocumented youth. >> can i just piggyback on that. just in terms of leveraging resources. the city has maya has already

pointed out funds a lot of programs. i would say try to find out who's being funded ask them to come over. try to figure out where those dollars for going. >>[inaudible]. >> right. let's connect afterwards. i maybe able to give you some follow up resources. >> the city is working between the various agencys to identify where there's individuals are. >> good morning. i am qwanza.

i am a community member and resident of san francisco. we talk about community response networks. we talk about all of the people working together. i think about in the good book about our humbling ourselves. so when i think about that, i am also a man of god. i have to ask this about where is the faith communities in these talks? in these discussions. are there any examples of the faith communities? >> i want to keep it real. i can say personally that i have out reached to all faith based organizations. they are the hardest to engage. a lot of times for certain

communities when you mention you are going to bring them in. they get upset. they show up where the cameras are there and they take over or where the mayor's office is there and they can push an agenda. i say that as an active member in the church and that doesn't give me leverage. >> sure. i agree basically is what cheryl said. it's difficult to get them to come to the table. unlike oakland. oco. they are about to do an action about stopping the violence. however, there are wonderful people in san francisco who are

working hard to this issue. we have an adult representation, reverend. i agree with cheryl. any ideas anyone here has about how we can better engage the faith community. we would be all ears on that >> the think the best way to get them on at the funerals. another deal is, we have to consider like, if you are not out there you are going to meet all the people. you are not going to touch bases with a lot of those pasteurs. they're are trying to do the right thing. keeping that connection when you go to the funeral, pull

them aside. >> they have a strong presence in the juvenile presence. we are very appreciative of their support and work with the juvenile probation community. >> in the sierra in the bay view. there's a minister on staff that can collaborates and tries to leverage other ministers. there's other of spiritual groups. as a form of deescalating is holding bringing in indigenous

practices as well. it's a larger scale spirituality. >> next question. >> i just have a question on what kwanza said. i am also spiritual. we are talking about politics and money, violence, guns. nobody is talking about prayer or god. that's all i want to say. everybody has all these positions but nobody is talking about prayer. >> we all have different ways we pray. >> i wanted to say something about church.

i just recently went to a which you were called new providence. the pastor stole money from the church. because faith base side a waste. >> do we have time for one more question? >> this question is specifically first young lady. once there's an act of violence. what do you think the resources are? if they are bad? how can they be improved? i think that's very important. kids need to have somebody to respond to them >> the resources in the school? >> yes. in your schools. >> well for violence, i mean there's not.

we have security and stuff like that. there's no real resources in the school. the teachers don't do nothing about it. that's basically it. or they send us straight to juvenile. >> one more. >> she waited a long time. so it's okay. >> my question, that i was one of the providers that went to the probation call in and i think it was an excellent program. i took a music program up there and 36 of your people there signed and i like to hope u